Incoherent transport across the strange-metal regime of overdoped cuprates

J. Ayres (), M. Berben (), M. Čulo, Y.-T. Hsu, E. Heumen, Y. Huang, J. Zaanen, T. Kondo, T. Takeuchi, J. R. Cooper, C. Putzke, S. Friedemann, A. Carrington and N. E. Hussey ()
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J. Ayres: University of Bristol
M. Berben: Radboud University
M. Čulo: Radboud University
Y.-T. Hsu: Radboud University
E. Heumen: University of Amsterdam
Y. Huang: University of Amsterdam
J. Zaanen: Leiden University
T. Kondo: University of Tokyo
T. Takeuchi: Toyota Technological Institute
J. R. Cooper: University of Cambridge
C. Putzke: University of Bristol
S. Friedemann: University of Bristol
A. Carrington: University of Bristol
N. E. Hussey: University of Bristol

Nature, 2021, vol. 595, issue 7869, 661-666

Abstract: Abstract Strange metals possess highly unconventional electrical properties, such as a linear-in-temperature resistivity1–6, an inverse Hall angle that varies as temperature squared7–9 and a linear-in-field magnetoresistance10–13. Identifying the origin of these collective anomalies has proved fundamentally challenging, even in materials such as the hole-doped cuprates that possess a simple bandstructure. The prevailing consensus is that strange metallicity in the cuprates is tied to a quantum critical point at a doping p* inside the superconducting dome14,15. Here we study the high-field in-plane magnetoresistance of two superconducting cuprate families at doping levels beyond p*. At all dopings, the magnetoresistance exhibits quadrature scaling and becomes linear at high values of the ratio of the field and the temperature, indicating that the strange-metal regime extends well beyond p*. Moreover, the magnitude of the magnetoresistance is found to be much larger than predicted by conventional theory and is insensitive to both impurity scattering and magnetic field orientation. These observations, coupled with analysis of the zero-field and Hall resistivities, suggest that despite having a single band, the cuprate strange-metal region hosts two charge sectors, one containing coherent quasiparticles, the other scale-invariant ‘Planckian’ dissipators.

Date: 2021
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